• AlGoreRhythm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith let’s go…faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception

    Alan Watts

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      1 year ago

      Cool quote. The problem is the people who claim to have faith use faith as an excuse to cling to a belief even after facts have proven otherwise. “But I still have faith X is true.” despite the facts proving otherwise. There in lies the problem.

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      1 year ago

      Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be.

      No that’s science.

      Faith is belief in something despite a lack of supporting evidence.